Truck.



No. 843,340. PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907. w. P. HUSSBY.

TRUCK.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6, 1906.

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WILLIAM P. HUSSEY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THE STANDARDDRY KILN CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

COMPANY,

OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, A

TRUCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1907.

Application filed July 5.1906. Serial No. 324,760.

To all 11/11/0171 it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. HUssnY, of Indianapolis, county ofMarion, and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and usefulTruck; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof,reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which like numerals refer to like parts.

This invention relates to a double-deck truck designed especially as abrick-truck for use in driers and the like.

The object of the invention is to make the truck simple, strong, andeconomical in construction.

The full nature of the invention will be more fully understood from theaccompanying drawings and the following description and claims.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a truck. Fig. 2 is an end elevationthereof, tilted positions of the platform being shown by dotted lines.Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, showing a plan view ofthe platform. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the upper end of the up persupport of the upper deck. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the outer endof one of the cross-bars on the upper deck. Fig. 6 is a vertical sectionthrough the truck-wheels and associated parts, parts being broken away.Fig. 7 is a perspective view of one end of the cross-pieces on the lowerplatform.

The double-deck truck herein shown to illustrate the nature of myinvention has for its lower portion a truck formed substantially likethat shown and described in a former patent granted on my application onJ anuary 31, 1905, No. 781,427. It is made up of four elements orpartswheels 10, housings 11, cross-bars 12, and side bars 13. There arefour wheels, four housings, four crossbars, and two side bars.

The wheels are on spindles 16 and are double-flanged to run ontrack-rails 1 1. The housings 11 are skeleton frames made of metalhaving a closed top, two open skeletonlike sides with downward centralextensions for the mounting of the wheel. The house ings have ledges 20along the outer side thereof, upon which cross-bars 12 and side bars 13may rest.

The cross-bars and side bars are made of channel-iron and are bolted tothe housings by bolts 17. The tops of the side bars and cross-bars andboxes are all flush, making a smooth top surface for the truck.

In assembling, the housings are first provided with the wheels. Then theoross-bars are secured in place, making two small twowheel trucks. Theparts of the entire truck are shipped in this way without furtherassembling, so that they may be packed in close compact form. At theplace of use the side bars 13 are bolted to the ends of the twoconstructions previously assembled.

Upon the foregoing-described truck-base I place a removable plate orplatform consisting of a series of longitudinal bars 21 about the widthof a brick and spaced from each other and secured to four cross-bars 22.These cross-bars have extensions 35, that rest on the side bars of thetruck.

To support the upper-deck crate or platform, I provide four doubleleg-supports, as shown in Fig. 1, these supports consisting of ahorizontal lower portion 23, two legs 24, that are curved away from eachother at their upper ends to widen the support and are secured to anupper cross-bar 25. The bars 23, 24, and 25 are preferably one easting.The supports are secured to the truckbase by the bolts 17, so that thesebolts se cure said supports, the side bars 13, and the housings 11together.

The upper ends of the legs or supports referred to are widened todistribute uniformly the supporting-points for the upper deck orplatform. This upper deck or platform is made subst antially like thelower one, consisting of longitudinal bars or slats 21, secured to fourcross-bars 26, equidistant from each other. Its cross-bars have at eachend a notch 27 on the under side to enable said bars to engage theheaded pins 28 on each side of the upper widened portion of each supportfor the upper deck. In this way the upper deck is supported and held inposition. With this arrangement the upper deck can be readily removedor, what is of still more value, be elevated or tipped, so as to readilygain access to the brick on the lower crate or platform and for loadingand unloading said lower crate or platform. It is observed that themeans for supporting the upper deck are strong, symmetrical, anddistribute the load and are readily removable from the truck if only thelower platform is to be used. This enables the device to be used assingle or double deck truck, and as double-deck truck it is very strongand Well placed. The upper platform cannot escape by reason of notches27 engaging the heads of the pins 28. The lower platform cannot escape,as the side bars are notched to engage the legs 24 of the varioussupports.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination with the wheels and frame of a truck, of an upperdeck or platform consisting of longitudinal bars secured to cross-barssubstantially equidistant from each other, supports secured to the frameof the truck widened at the upper end, and means at each side of theupper end of said support for su porting said cross-bars on 20 saidupper dec or platform whereby the weight of said deck or platform willbe evenly distributed.

2. In a double-deck truck having wheels, the combination with a frame,and a lower platform, of an upper platform having crossbars with 110ok-shaped ends, and supports for said upper platform that at their lowerends are secured to the truck-frame and at their upper ends have pins tobe engaged by the hook-shaped ends of the cross-bars of the upperplatform whereby said upper platform may be readily removed or tilted.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presenceof the witnesses herein named.

l/VILLIAM P. HUSSEY.

Witnesses HELEN B. M00031), N. ALLEMoNe.

